Documents of the Right Word

insolently assailed this innonect Khalîfa and cast aspersions
incompatible with mind and knowledge on him.
Allâhu ta’âlâ created thousands of Sunnite scholars
‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ alaihim ajma’în’ to defend that innocent
Khalîfa and to disgrace his foes. These great scholars wrote
numerous books defending hadrat Mu’âwiya’s right and
announcing throughout the world the virtues and values possessed
by this great Sahâbî.
39- “It is not something believable that Mu’âwiya did not plan
or know or estimate or at least imagine when he was alive the
inconceivably horrendous and hideous turpitude that would later
be inflicted on hadrat Huseyn,” he alleges.
It is impossible to imagine a Muslim not deeply grieved over
the disaster of Kerbelâ caused by Ziyâd’s son Ubeydullah. Each
and every individual Sunnite Muslim sheds bitter tears whenever
he recollects those gloomy days. (Some people) mourn over the
catastrophe of Kerbelâ on the tenth of (the month of) Muharram.
So, while these people mourn only for one day in a whole year, we
mourn all the year round. While these people mourn for hadrat
Huseyn only because he is hadrat Alî’s son, we mourn because he
is a grandson of Muhammad’s ‘alaihis-salâm’, the Messenger of
Allah. We Sunnîs love hadrat Alî because he was Rasûlullah’s
son-in-law and because at the Messenger’s command he fought
disbelievers like an angry lion. And we love hadrat Mu’âwiya
because he was Rasûlullah’s brother-in-law and because he made
Jihâd against disbelievers for the sake of Allah. Rasûlullah ‘sall-
Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ stated, “Love my As-hâb! He who loves
them does so because he loves me. Do not be hostile towards my
As-hâb! He who is hostile towards them is hostile towards me.”
We love hadrat Alî and hadrat Mu’âwiya very much because they
are Sahâbîs. We have explained in the previous matter that it
would be a very loathsome calumniation to impute the calamities
that happened in the time of Yezîd to hadrat Mu’âwiya. It would
be a more loathsome and baser vilification to assert that hadrat
Mu’âwiya arranged these calamities before his death. Mu’âwiya’s
attitudes indicating his love and respect for hadrat Hasan and
hadrat Huseyn and his generous kindnesses towards them are
recorded in books. Those who have the habit of reading should
know these facts well. If hadrat Mu’âwiya had considered to hurt
Rasûlullah’s beloved sons, who had been blessed with the glad
tidings of Paradise by their hallowed grandfather, he could have
done so quite easily during his caliphate, when everything was
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